Hostile Takeover

Scarlett Mercer never intended to come back to New York, never intended to step into a world that had always felt cold, calculated, and just out of reach. But when her father's health begins to fail and his empire starts to slip through his fingers, she's left with no choice but to take his place. Overnight, she becomes the woman everyone is watching... and the one man she can't afford to face.

Julian Blackwood built his name on precision and control. He doesn't chase...he acquires. He doesn't hesitate....he wins. And he definitely doesn't blur the line between business and pleasure. Until her.

Because the woman now sitting across from him in boardrooms, challenging every move he makes, is the same woman he had pressed against him just hours before everything changed. The same woman he can't seem to forget.

Every meeting between them is sharp, controlled, professional. Every glance is something else entirely. Tension simmers beneath every word, every pause stretching just a little too long, every brush of proximity threatening to unravel the restraint they both cling to.